Mahanoy City, PA
How exposed is Mahanoy City to wildfire?
USFS scores Mahanoy City at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 675 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mahanoy City at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Mahanoy City's buildings (96.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Mahanoy City against the rest of the country
Within Pennsylvania, Mahanoy City ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (51st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mahanoy City ranks 15,484 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 332 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mahanoy City
Mahanoy City's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mahanoy City
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mahanoy City (96.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Mahanoy City's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mahanoy City, see the exposure-zones guide.